Biology Bookings...?

It would seem that I'm in some kind of minor demand as a biology tutor: a couple of people have already, uh, made bookings for next year. ROFL. Now, I have absolutely nothing against it - in fact, I love biology and evolution so much that you couldn't get me to shut up about it if you tried (and Force knows, you'd get an earful of anything from geology to forensics as well, depending on what we're discussing. The Bible has also come up several times in class, bizarrely; the few instances where I was glad I paid any attention in high school) - but even when I was in school, I could never understand why anybody would require help in biology, of all the science subjects. (Neither can my father, for that matter, LOL). I mean, yeah, I can see where one might need help in further math, say, or the application of physics formulae in calculations, but for me, biology is so straightforward that... gosh, there doesn't seem to be anything to need help in understanding, y'know? at least at high school level (and even at undergraduate level, all it takes is some time to sit down and think, and a decent head for remembering pathways, which is all kinds of retarded fun). So my first impression when I started was that it would be like, a revision class, which I felt slightly guilty about. And then I realised that, strangely enough, not everybody seems to be able to wrap their heads around concepts like respiration (even without the Embden-Meyerhof pathway to worry about; bad teachers at school, maybe? but how could a teacher possibly be so bad that... bah. I suppose if they can somehow *not* teach students to answer questions using the 5W+1H method, or to even plan a framework for their essays, they're capable of anything). It confuses me. At the same time, I'm also seeing kids with borderline passing grades get borderline As, so either I'm doing something right, or they've finally bucked up and started studying hard. I dunno.

It amuses me how, no matter how I've tried steering clear of teaching, it keeps pushing its way back into my life. If I believed in fate, I'd see it as a calling of some sort. LOL.

INFLICTING BOOKS UPON FRIENDS

In other news, a friend who has sworn never to read The Brick has started on it. I've learnt that the best way of getting people to read something is.... quite simply, to buy them the book. God, it's sneaky, and it's playing with people's conscience, but... yeah right, like that's ever stopped me before.

PS, I'M AN IDIOT

... I have only just discovered the existence of the "Add to friends" link on journal pages. >.